Brentfield Primary School Curriculum Overview 2021-22

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Brentfield Primary School Curriculum Overview 2021-22

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Whole School Drivers

Belong Responsible Aspiration

Valuing Diversity Empowered

Whole School Theme

Questions

Who is The Bravest?

BHM

Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner?

Water, Water Everywhere and Not

a Drop to Drink

Discover the Wonders of the

World

Why is the Earth So Angry?

Express Yourself

Suggested Celebrations of

Learning

Whole School: Showcase event and

international celebration with

parents.

Whole School: Art exhibition

Phase: Science Fair (Teaching our peers.

Parent invitation)

Whole School: Our Wonderful World

Showcase

Phase: Environmental

Awareness

Whole School: This is Us

(International Event)

EYFS All About Me

Trips/Experiences: Autumn walk in our

local area

Core Texts: Giraffes Can’t Dance

Click Clack Moo Elmer

You Have a Friend in Me

Trips/Experiences:

I spy shapes (looking at shapes in

the environment)

Core Texts: Here we are Owl Babies

Three Little Pigs How Many Legs

Growth

Trips/Experiences: Investigating snow

and ice

Core Texts: Polar Bear, Polar Bear,

what do you hear? Lost and Found

A Dot in the Snow

Animals

Trips/Experiences: Story telling

workshop

Core Texts: Baby Brains

The Gingerbread man Little Red Hen

Non-fiction books: families

The Universe and I

Trips/Experiences: Ruislip Woods

Core Texts:

Whatever Next Beegu

Non-fiction books: Space

Storytelling

Trips/Experiences:

Art workshop

Core Texts: Tiddler

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Sleeping Beauty

2

PSED:

Accepting and celebrating our

differences. Solving conflicts

without aggression

PD: Transporting and storing safely and

managing risk Exploring ways of

moving like animals. Developing pencil grip

CL:

Vocabulary relating to animals and habitats

Developing conversations

Literacy:

Reading books about animals

Learning our sounds and sounding out

words Writing labels and simple sentences.

Maths:

PSED: Settling into school

Our experiences Sharing and taking

turns

PD: Handwashing and

handling Developing our

muscles Developing co-

ordination Copying patterns and

shapes

CL: Listening to each

other Joining in with stories

Sounds, rhyme and alliteration

Literacy:

Reading and writing names

Listening to and joining in with stories

Maths:

Matching, sorting and comparing amounts

PSED:

People and things that are important to us.

Working independently and

asking for help.

PD: Keeping ourselves

clean and dry by playing safely.

Jumping Practicing letter

formation

CL: Retelling familiar

stories Working together in

groups

Literacy: Writing missing persons’ posters

Sequencing stories and writing favourite

parts

Maths: White Rose-Alive in 5

Growing 6, 7 and 8

EAD:

PSED:

Learning about strengths and needs Sharing and helping

others

PD: Healthy foods

Throwing, catching and kicking a ball

Controlling the size of letters

CL:

Following a story without pictures or

props Following 2-step

instructions whilst cooking

Literacy:

Comparing different versions of stories Writing own story

starters, changing the characters

Maths:

White Rose-Building 9 and 10

Consolidation

PSED:

Talking about activities that we

enjoy How our actions

affect others Exploring our own

feelings

PD: The impact of exercise

on our bodies Navigating an

obstacle course Correctly forming all

letters.

CL: Learning new

vocabulary about space

Playing with ‘alien’ words

Retelling events in the right order

Literacy:

Reading fiction and non-fiction about

space Writing speech

bubbles and using full

PSED: Speaking in

positive terms about ourselves and developing

confidence

PD: Keeping ourselves

healthy and safe Running and

changing direction safely

Using movement to retell stories

CL:

Introducing own storylines into a

play Using language

creatively to tell new and familiar

stories

Literacy: Retelling and

rewriting familiar stories

Change and innovate stories

using story

3

Representing and comparing numbers

up to 5. Learning about basic

shapes, positional language and time.

EAD:

Mixing colours Moving to music

UW:

Observing similarities and differences

between animals. Learning about

celebrations and communities (Diwali

and Christmas)

ICT: Exploring Beebots.

Learning that we can use computers to find out information about

animals.

Recognising and describing patterns

Comparing size, mass and capacity

EAD:

Self-portraits Role play and dressing

up Exploring primary

colours

UW: Families and

communities. Here We Are: Looking

at the wider world

ICT: Using battery operated toys

Using the computer and interactive white

board (touch screen and

mouse)

Watercolour polar scenes

Sculpture penguins

UW: Comparing the arctic

to the immediate environment and

other familiar habitats Exploring the

differences between materials.

ICT:

Making representations with

pen or finger on a touchscreen

Begin to understand online safety

Recognising, representing and

working with numbers 11-20

EAD:

Acting out traditional tales as well as own

stories.

UW: Growth and decay

(planting watercress) Exploring how

ingredients change when we cook them.

ICT:

Using a mouse. Using a computer to

make representations of learning

sentences to describe a picture

Using non-fiction books to find out

information

Maths: White Rose-On the move, Superhero to

20 and beyond Solving problems including adding,

taking away, grouping and sharing within 20

EAD:

Making 3D models of planets and spaceships

Exploring ways to represent the night

sky

UW: Technology needed

for space travel Using computers and

tablets to find information

ICT:

Using a keyboard to type

elements in new ways.

Maths: White Rose-First,

then now Find my pattern

EAD:

Creating representations from favourite stories using a

range of materials and media

UW:

Learning to express and

accept similarities and differences

between ourselves and

others

ICT:

4

1 Rosa Parks

Trip/Experience: Sufra

Core Text:

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddel

Rosa Parks: Non-

fiction (Little People, Big Dreams)

English:

Narrative-re-telling the life of Rosa Parks

Re-telling Farmer Duck with alternative

characters/setting

Maths: Place value within 10

Addition and subtraction within 10

Geometry: Shape Place value within 20

Science:

Animals including humans

Seasonal Changes (1 week)

Computing:

Famous Landmarks

Trip/ Experience:

Junk Modelling day Local shops

Core Text:

Paddington in London and Pop up

Stuck by Oliver Jeffers

English:

Character description Short narrative-

repetitive structure Narrative-own

version of Stuck

Maths: Place value within 10

Addition and subtraction within 10

Geometry: Shape Place value within 20

Science:

Animals including humans


Computing:

Britain as an Island

Trip/Experience: Science Museum

Core Text:

The Night Pirates by Peter Harris

The Black Hat-film

unit

English: Letters

1st person narrative Character description

Maths:

Addition and subtraction (within

20) Place value (within 50) Measurement: length

and height Weight and volume

Science:

Plants


Computing:

Buildings that Reach the Sky

Trip/Experience: The

Sky Garden

Core Text: Belonging by Jeannie

Baker

The Magic Paintbrush by Julia Donaldson

English:

Narrative Stories from other

cultures

Maths: Addition and

subtraction (within 20)

Place value (within 50) Measurement: length

and height Weight and volume

Science:

Plants

Science: Everyday materials

Seasonal Changes

Living By The Sea

Trip/Experience: A trip to the beach

(Frensham)

Core Text:

Sally and the Limpet by Simon James

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Dewalt

English:

Postcards Narrative

Maths:

Multiplication and division

Fractions Geometry: Position

and direction Place value (within

100) Measurement: money

and time

Science: Everyday materials

Seasonal Changes

(1 week)

It’s My Favourite

Trip/Experience: Tate Britain

Core Text:

The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew

Dewalt

Traditional Rhymes

English: Letter Poetry

Maths:


Fractions Geometry:

Position and direction

Place value (within 100)

Measurement: money and time

Science:

Everyday materials

5

Keyboard and mouse skills

History:

BHM (all aspects of BRAVE)

Life of Rosa Parks

Art: Portrait of Rosa Parks (Portraits in realism-

Rembrandt, Gainsborough)

RE: Light (Temple visit)

PSHE:

What does it mean to be brave?

Planet Relationships Planet Confidence Using medication

safely The Niggle

PE:

Jumping

Music: Musicianship 1

We are Safe Online

History: landmarks

Geography:

Mapping landmarks

DT: Junk modelling of

landmarks

RE: Light

PSHE:

Healthy and

Unhealthy Foods Anti-bullying week

The Bully

PE: Running

Music:

Musicianship 1

We are treasure hunters

Geography:

The seas around the UK

How water is used to help us in our daily

lives.

Art: Water paintings.

Seascapes using wash techniques (Scenes of the Sea-Mary Cassatt,

Water Lilies-Claude Monet)

RE:

Food

PSHE: How to play

People and places that make me feel safe

PE:

Gymnastics and Dance

Music:

Musicianship 2

(1 week)

Computing: We are treasure

hunters

History: Shard - Tallest

Building in Britain Time line of tall

buildings in the world.

DT: Build structures,

exploring how they can be made stronger,

stiffer, more stable

RE: Food

PSHE:

Good to be green How to keep safe at

home

PE: Sending and receiving

Music:

Musicianship 2

Computing:

We are collectors

Geography: How the weather

changes our coastlines (e.g. White Cliffs of

Dover/Jurassic coast erosion)

How is sand made?

RE: Caring for our World

PSHE:

Money Week Hot and cold

Growing and changing since birth

PE:

Athletics



Computing: We are painters

Art:

Abstract (Design inspired by

Electric Prisms-Sonia Delauny)

DT:

Introduction to construction

RE:

Caring for our World

PSHE:

What Sid did How to keep

ourselves clean Understanding

what 'bad' secrets are

PE:

Multi sports


6

2 Nelson Mandela Trip/Experience:

African art workshop

Core Text: Grandad Mandela by

Zazi Ziwelene and Zindzi Mandela

Meerkat Mail by Emily

Gravett

English: Postcard

Narrative-1st person retell Letter

Maths: Place value

Addition and subtraction

Measurement: money Multiplication and

division

Science: Animals including

humans

Computing: We are researchers

Pudding Lane and The City of London

Trip/ experience: Monument

Core Text:

Vlad and the Great Fire of London by Kate Cunningham

Samuel Pepys by

Peter Harrison

English: Setting description

Recount Narrative

Diary

Maths: Place value


Measurement: money Multiplication and

division

Science: Uses of everyday

materials

Computing:

Oceans and Seas Trip/Experience: London Aquarium

Core Text:

The Big Book of the Blue by Yuval

Zommer

The Lighthouse Keepers’ Catastrophe

by Ronda and David Armitage

English:

Non-chronological report

Poetry (Including performance poems) Narrative-alternative

ending

Maths: Multiplication and

division Statistics

Geometry: Properties of shape

Fractions

Science: Uses of everyday

materials

The Seven Wonders Trip/Experience:

Workshop: Cartouche painting

Core Text:

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs By

Jon Scieszka

The Girl With The Yellow Bag (Film Unit)

English: Instructions

Character description 3rd Person Narrative

Maths:


Statistics Geometry: Properties

of shape Fractions

Science:

Plants

Computing: We are pirates

History:

Frozen Lands Trip/Experience:

National Maritime Museum Greenwich

(Shackleton)

Core Text: Little Polar Bear by

Lars De Beer Something Fishy-film

unit

English: Diary

Innovative Narrative Short narrative

including setting description

Maths:

Measurement: length and height

Geometry: position and direction

Consolidation and problem solving

Time Mass, capacity and

temperature

Science: Living things and their

habitats.

It’s in Fashion! Trip/Experience: V and A museum

(Discovering materials

workshop)

Core Text: Coco Chanel

(Little people, big dreams)

The Sound

Collector by Roger McGough

Dirty Beasts by

Roald Dahl

English: Character

Description Narrative

Poetry

Maths: Measurement:

length and height Geometry:

position and direction

Consolidation and problem solving

Time

7

History: BHM (all aspects of

BRAVE) Life of Nelson

Mandela.

Art: Tribal art (African

landscape printing) Landscapes-John

Ndamo

RE:

Caring for our world

PSHE: What does it mean to

be brave? Stay safe around

harmful substances The Niggle

PE:

Jumping

Music: Pitch and rhythm

We are safe online

History: Great Fire of London

Geography:

Mapping the route of the fire (developing

keys)

Art: Colour Mixing and

silhouettes. Exploring landscapes (Jan

Griffier-Baroque)

RE: Caring for our world

PSHE:

Anti-bullying week The Bully

Healthy and unhealthy foods

PE:

Running

Music: Pitch and rhythm

Computing: We are pirates

Geography: World Oceans,

habitats and human effects on them.

Art:

The Great Wave (Hokusai)-Japanese

collage

RE: Water

PSHE:

Same but different The importance of,

and how to, maintain personal hygiene

Understanding life in different countries

PE:

Gymnastics Dance

Music:

Recorder Introduction

Changes in living memory – past and present wonders of

the world

DT: Model of a wonder

RE:

St Michael’s Church (Water)

PSHE:

The ball and the wall How to stay safe

around fire

PE: Sending and receiving

Music:

Recorder introduction.

Computing:

We are zoologists

Geography: Ice caps are melting –

what is the impact?

History: Shackleton and the

Antarctic

RE: Caring for others

PSHE:

Boys cry too Money Week

Differences between males and females

PE:

Athletics

Music: Recorder

Development

Mass, capacity and temperature

Science: Living things and

their habitats.

Computing: We are

Photographers

Art: Look at repeating patterns. Textiles-

The Beauty of Flowers

DT:

Making simple constructions

using wheels, a cam and levers

RE: Caring for

others

PSHE: Cat just sat

Naming body parts

Right to say no to unwanted touch

8

PE: Multi sports

Music:

Recorder Development

3 Mae C Jemison

(Engineer and Astronaut)

Trip/Experience: Planetarium show

(Royal Observatory Greenwich)

Core Text:

Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed

The Children of Lir by

Sheila Macgill-Callahan

The Present-film unit

English:

1st person narrative Story openings

Newspaper

Maths: Place value


Wembley Trip/

experience: Wembley stadium

Core Text:

Olympig by Victoria

Jameison

Until I Met Dudley by Roger McGough

Marshmallow-film

unit

English: Diary

Narrative

Maths: Place value



The Water Cycle Trip/Experience:

London Museum of Water and Steam

Core Text:

The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame

Baker-Smith

Flotsam by David Weisner

English:

Informal letter Character description

Persuasive advert Free verse poetry

Maths:

Multiplication and division Money

Statistics Length and perimeter

Fractions

Tomb Raiders (Egyptians)

Trip/Experience: The British Museum

Core Text:

How to Live Forever by Colin Thomson

The Windmill Farmer-

film unit

English: Narrative

Setting description Instructions

Maths:

Multiplication and division Money

Statistics Length and perimeter

Fractions

Exploding Mountains Trips/Experience:

Freshwater Theatre Volcanoes Show

Core Text: Volcanoes

The Princesses’

Blanket by Carol Ann Duffy

English:


Persuasive letter Diary

Maths:

Fractions Time

Properties of shape Mass and capacity

Science:

Rocks

First Impressions

Trip/Experience: Coultard Institute

of Art in School workshop

(impressionism)

Core Text:

Poetry Unit A Kid in My Class by Rachel Rooney

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher by

Pamela Butchart

English: Character

description Newspaper Argument

Performance poetry

Maths:

9


Science:

Forces and magnets

Computing: We Are vloggers

History:

BHM. Famous black female scientists (Mae

C Jemison)

Art: Class collage (The

Journey into Space-Planets inspired by

Robert McColl)

RE: Community (Unity

Centre visit)

PSHE: Planet Relationships

Planet Confidence Understanding the effects of caffeine

PE:

Net and wall games

Science:

Light

Computing: We Are opinion

pollsters

History: The development of Wembley (stadium

and high road)

Geography: Mapping local area

Art:

Portraits (famous athletes and artists)

RE: Community

PSHE:

Planet Wellbeing Planet Character

building Anti-bullying week Why democracy is important (School

council)

PE: Invasion Games

Science: Light

Computing:

We Are programmers

Geography: Water cycle

Describe key aspects of physical geography

including rivers, mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes and the

water cycle.

Art: In the dark of the

night. Starry Night (Van Gogh)

RE: sacred and special

books

PSHE: Planet Diversity

Understanding the rights of the child

PE:

Gymnastics

Music:

Science: Plants

Computing:

We Are Programmers

History: The Ancient Egyptians

DT:

Mechanics- Making different

designs to lift a container full of

water. Investigating levers and linkages.

RE: sacred and special

books

PSHE: Planet Resilience Planet Happiness

Understanding who to trust online

PE:

Target and fielding games

Music:

Recorder, singing and body percussion

Computing:

We Are Communicators

Geography: Volcanoes

History:

Stone Age and Bronze Age

RE:

Judaism (central London Synagogue)

PSHE:

Planet Heads up Money Week

Exploring different types of families

Exploring the difference between

wants and needs

PE: Athletics

Music:

Ensemble development

Spanish:

Fractions Time

Properties of shape

Mass and capacity


humans

Computing: We Are

Presenters

Art: Abstract art:

Textiles (stitching)

DT:

Food technology- making animal

cakes

RE: Judaism

PSHE:

Planet Physical Understanding

what dementia Is and how it is

related to memory

10

Music: Recorder, singing and

moving

Spanish: Greetings and

numbers

Music: Recorder, singing and

moving

Spanish: Colours and animals

Recorder, singing and body percussion

Spanish:

Days, months, seasons and fruit

Spanish: Food, drink and giving

preferences

Family, stories and conversation

PE:

Multi-sports

Music: Ensemble

development

Spanish: Cultural diversity

4 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

(The first female elected head of state

in Africa)

Trip/Experience: Art Workshop

Core Text:

The Journey by Francesca Senna

The Spiderwick

Chronicles (The Field Guide) by Holly Black

and Tony DiTerlizzi

English: Diary

Blog-balanced argument

The Thames

Trip/ Experience:

Tower of London

Core Text: My Friend Walter by

Michael Morpurgo

The Dream Giver-film unit

English:

Virtual information leaflet Letter

Fantasy narrative Setting/character

description

Maths: Place value

Rivers

Trip/Experience: Science Museum

Core Text:

The Village That Vanished by Ann Grifalconi, Kadir

Nelson

Oliver and the Seawigs

English:

Scripted dialogue Instructions

Argument/persuasion Poetry

Maths:


Eureka!

Trip/Experience: British Museum

Core Text:

The Orchard Book of Greek Myths by

Geraldine McCaughrean

English:

Newspaper report Diary

Short narrative Persuasive article

Maths:


Area Fractions Decimals

Shaken Earth

Trip/Experience: Shinto Shrine

Core Text:

Earthquakes: Non-fiction

The Firework Makers

Daughter

English: Discussion/ explanation

Narrative Letter

Maths:

Decimals Money

Time Statistics

Who Am I?

Trip/Experience National Portrait Gallery (How do we see ourselves

workshop?)

Core Text: The Boy in a

Dress by David Walliams

I Don’t Like

Poetry-Joshua Siegal

English:

Magazine article Character synopsis

Performance poetry

11


Setting description in a short narrative.

Maths:

Place value Addition and subtraction

Length and perimeter



humans

Computing: We are Co-Authors

History:

BHM and Benin

Art: African Prints (Adire

Aleko resist dyeing to make African prints)

RE:

Christianity (Church visit)


Length and perimeter Multiplication and

division


habitats

Computing: We Are

Photographers

History: Tudor London

Geography:

Rivers

DT: Mechanics/

Construction: Making an

improvement to a Tudor kitchen

RE: Christianity

PSHE:

Planet Wellbeing Planet Character

building

Area Fractions Decimals

Science:

States of matter

Computing: We Are Software

Developers

Geography:

Comparative study of the Thames (studied

in Autumn) and another significant

river

Art: River art-Kandynsky

RE: Rules for Living

PSHE:

Planet Diversity Understand the water

crisis around the world

PE:

Gymnastics

Music:

Science: Sound

Computing:

We Are software developers

History:

Ancient Greece

DT: Food- Ancient Greek

RE: Rules for Living

PSHE: Planet Resilience Planet Happiness How to stay safe

around water

PE: Target and fielding

games

Music: Body percussion –group composition

Spanish:

Likes and dislikes

Properties of shape Position and direction

Science:

Electricity

Computing: We Are

Meteorologists

Geography: Earthquakes

History: Iron Age

RE: Shinto Shrine visit

Places of Worship

PSHE: Planet Heads up

Money Week Basic facts about

puberty and change How to save

PE:

Athletics

Music: Ukulele Introduction

Spanish:

Poems with a structure

Maths:

Decimals Money

Time Statistics

Properties of shape


Science:

Electricity

Computing: We Are Bloggers

Art:

Sculpture inspired by Mondrian (Cubism)

DT:

Design and make paper/ wooden picture frames.

RE: Places of

worship

PSHE:

12


Planet Confidence Explain the risks associated with

alcohol

PE: Net and wall games

Music:

Recorder skills/Tamboo

Bamboo

Spanish: Revising numbers and

telling the time

Anti-bullying week Critically thinking about information

available online

PE: Invasion Games

Music:

Recorder skills/Tamboo

Bamboo

Spanish: Parts of the body and

feeling unwell.

Body percussion –group composition

Spanish:

New foods and drink

Weather and transport

Planet Physical Explore how

dementia affects the whole family

PE:

Multi-sports

Music: Ukulele

Introduction

Spanish: Clothing and

shops

5 Ida B Wells (African-American

investigative journalist, educator,

and an early leader in the Civil Rights

Movement)

Trip/Experience: Divergent drama

workshop

Core Text: The Boy at the Back

of the class

Docklands

Trip/ experience:

Museum of the Docklands

Core Text:

Street Child by Berlie Doherty

The Tale of Three Brothers-film unit

English:

Setting description

The Changing Amazon

Trip/Experience:

Kew Gardens

Core Text: Journey to the River

Sea by Eve Ibbottson.

Lighthouse-film unit

English: Adventure narrative

Character description Newspaper report

Ancient Islamic Civilization

Trip/Experience: Central London

Mosque

Core Text: Rain Player

1001 Arabian Nights

English: Narrative-traditional

tales Instructions Newspaper

Our Changing World

Trips/Experience: FSC Amersham

Core Text:

The Last Wild by Piers Torday

Treasure-film unit

English:

Setting description Persuasive magazine

article

My Dream Self

Trip/Experience: Tate Modern

Core Text:

The Goldfish Boy

Lady of Shallot-Tennyson

English:

Blog-report/discussion Narrative poetry

13

The Butterfly Lion

English: Persuasive letter

Narrative Diary

Balanced argument

Maths: Place value


Statistics Multiplication and

division Perimeter and area

Science: Forces

Computing:

We Are toy designers

History: BHM The change in

the lives of Black Americans in the Civil

rights era and its connection to the rest

of the world.

Art: Andy Warhol and

Jean-Michel Basquiat-

Diary Non-chronological

report Poems with a

structure Film scripts

Maths:

Place value Addition and subtraction

Statistics Multiplication and

division Perimeter and area

Science:

Properties and changes in materials.

Computing:

We Are Toy Designers

History: The Victorians

Geography:

Trade routes (continents)

DT:

Tea Caddies and Spice jars (Clay)

Maths:


Fractions Decimals and percentages

Science:

Living things and their habitats

Computing:

We Are Travel Writers

Geography:

The Amazon: how locations around the world are changing.

Settlements, land use, economic activity

including trade links and the distribution of

natural resources including energy, food,

minerals and water supplies.

Art:

Art Deco (rainforest collage in Art Deco

style) Henri Rousseau-

Maths:


Fractions Decimals and percentages

Science:

Earth and space

Computing: We Are web developers

History:

Early Islamic Civilization

DT:

Textiles: Islamic Weaving

RE: Islam

(Central London Mosque)

PSHE:

Planet Resilience Planet Happiness

How to stay safe when cycling

PE:

Narrative poetry-1st person

Maths:

Decimals Properties of shape

Position and direction Converting units

Volume


habitats

Computing: We Are musicians

Geography: Climate Change

History:

Anglo-Saxons

RE: Symbols


Money Week Explore emotional and

physical changes during puberty

Maths: Decimals

Properties of shape


Converting units Volume


humans

Computing: We Are Artists

Art: Frida Kahlo:

textiles A study of

Surrealism- stitching

DT:

Design and make shadow boxes

RE: Symbols

PSHE:

Planet Physical

14

Who changed the art world? (Protest

posters and pop art)

RE: Hinduism (temple

visit)


Planet Confidence Explore the risks

associated with drug use

PE:

Net and wall games

Music: Ukulele Skill

Development

Spanish: Verbs and questions

RE: Hinduism

PSHE: Planet Wellbeing Planet Character

building Anti-bullying week

Interpret and understand

information of food labels

PE:

Invasion Games

Music: Ukulele Skill

Development

Spanish: TV, music and movies

RE: Islam

PSHE:

Planet Diversity Explain what

migration is and why people need to

migrate

PE: Gymnastics

Music: Melodic Composition

Spanish:

Familiar places

Target and fielding games

Music:

Melodic Composition

Spanish: Food and eating out

Understand budgeting and deductions from

payslips

PE: Athletics

Music:

African Drumming

Spanish: Leisure, sports and

time

Explore impact of puberty and

importance for personal hygiene

PE:

Multi-sports

Music: African

Drumming

Spanish: Friendships and

personalities

6

Malala Yousafzai

Trip/Experience: Museum of London

interactive session: A Suffragette Story

Core Text:

Brick Lane

Trip/Experience: The Imperial War Museum

Core Text:

The Tale of Desperaux

The Ridge-film unit

Natural Disasters: Flood and famine

Trip/Experience:

Gurdwara

Core Text: Floodland by Marcus

Sedgwick

When in Rome

Trip/Experience: Verulamium Museum-

St Albans

Core Text: Julius Caesar

Damaged Earth

Trip/Experience: Natural History

Museum: The Variety Show

Core Text:

The Iron Woman by Ted Hughes

Where next? (Transition)

Trip/Experience:

Residential Theatre trip

Core Text:

Cosmic

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Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls'

Rights by Malala Yousafzai

Wonder by RJ Palacio

English:

Blog-balanced argument

Website article-persuasive

Formal letter Narrative

Maths:

Place value Addition, subtraction,

multiplication and division

Fractions Position and direction

Science: Light

Computing:

We Are cryptographers

History:

Development of women’s rights

English: Balanced argument

Diary Biography

Short narrative Free verse poetry

with Imagery

Maths: Place value

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and

division Fractions


Science: Electricity

Computing:

We Are Travel Writers

History:

World War Two: The Blitz in London

Geography: Migration

Art:

Murals and street art Cityscapes

Ruin-film unit

English: Diary

Film script Flashback narrative

Character monologue

Maths: Decimals

Percentages Algebra

Converting units Perimeter, area and

volume Ratio

Statistics


environment.

Computing: We Are architects

Geography: Impact of flood and

famine on communities and

countries.

DT:

Beowulf (Anglo Saxons)

English: Letter

Newspaper Description

Maths:

Decimals Percentages

Algebra Converting units

Perimeter, area and volume

Ratio Statistics

Science:

Evolution and inheritance

Computing:

We Are Reporters

History: The Romans

DT:

Build an aqua duct using practical skills

such as cutting, drilling, screwing,

nailing, gluing).

The Jabberwocky

English: Letter

Campaign leaflet-persuasion

Narrative poetry Short story

Maths:

Geometry and properties of shape Consolidation, and

preparation for SATs


environment

Computing: We are Adventure

Gamers

Geography: Reefs and Atolls.

History:

The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the

Kingdom of England to the time of Edward

the Confessor

Year 6 Production writing

English:

Description Biographical

writing Advice writing

Recount Play script

Maths:

Geometry and properties of

shape Consolidation,

investigations and preparation for

KS3


humans

Computing: We Are

Adventure Gamers

Art:

Abstract expressionist

sculpture: Feelings and

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globally including the suffragettes.

Art: Portraits-Art

Deco using collage

RE: Buddhism (London Buddhist

Centre visit)


Planet Confidence Understand risks associated with

cannabis and volatile substance abuse

PE:

Net and wall games

Music: Beatbox/Rap and

Ukulele

Spanish: Family and Friends

RE: Buddhism

PSHE: Planet Wellbeing Planet Character

building Anti-bullying week Understand how a

parliamentary debate occurs

School Council

PE: Invasion Games

Music:

Beatbox/Rap and Ukulele

Spanish:

Descriptions

Food- designing an energy snack

RE: Sikhism

(Gurdwara visit)

PSHE: Planet Diversity

Understand homelessness and

reasons for it

PE: Gymnastics

Music: Samba

Spanish:

Familiar places

RE: Sikhism

PSHE:

Planet Resilience Planet Happiness Understand what

risky behaviours are

PE: Target and fielding

games

Music: Samba

Spanish:

Our world

RE: People of faith


Money Week Consider physical and emotional behaviour

in relationships Understand different

jobs have different salaries and what value for money

means

PE: Athletics

Music:

Class Performance Project

Spanish:

Special Occasions

emotions-Dali, Jackson Pollock

DT:

Textiles-design and make a flag or

banner to represent your

journey through primary school.

RE: People of faith

PSHE:

Planet Physical Explore process

of pregnancy and conception

PE:

Multi-sports

Music: Class

Performance Project

Spanish:

Daily Routine

Documents

Brentfield Primary School Curriculum Overview 2021-22